Thanks for the help but scanreg /restore didnt work, neither did the reinstall of win98, any other ideas? thank u

Hi Natasa, Can you boot up in safe mode? To do this, restart the computer and keep tapping the F8 key. This will bring you to a boot selection screen. From there choose Safe Mode. Have you installed any software or drivers recently? If you have, try uninstalling it. If you are able to boot up in safe mode, do a virus scan, in addition to a disk cleanup and scandisk/defrag. Post back with your results. Good Luck, ~winipcfg

Yes! I tried booting in safe mode, i get the green background but again no icons or start menu. Last week i installed and uninstalled northon antivirus, but it worked for a week before this happeneed. Any other ideas?

Hi, When you uninstalled Norton, did you install another antivirus software? Or are you now without Virus protection? If the latter, a virus may have corrupted your operating system. That's kinda unlikely, but not impossible, though. You may want to try replacing your RAM, as Don Miller suggested in your first thread unless anyone else out there has any more ideas. HTH, ~winipcfg

no virus protection now guess it could be a virus, thanks for the help ill try the memory THANK

Did you install any applications before you restarted and then it didn't work? Windows may well just be stopping at this point due to a bad process caused by a program that was trying to load.

"When i click control alt delete at that point i get only one process running that is winxd or something." I suspect that `winxd' is the problem. Explorer should be the first thing started. Did you install winxd recently?